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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I still use my PDA for reading, even though I have a 5" and a 6" e-ink reader as well. The smallness makes a perfect portable reader.
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Yep. Mine goes with me everywhere.
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(though, mine is 640x480 and I find that that increase in resolution is great. My previous PDA had the same screen size and half the resolution...)
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320x480 is usable, though I heard about but haven't actually seen a Palm model with a 640x400 resolution. A little custom font configuration helps a lot.
Most of my documents are converted locally from HTML source for Plucker, an open source offline HTML viewer. I can also handle MobiPocket, PDF, eReader, plain text and other files. About the only thing I can't read directly is ePub, since there's no Palm OS viewer for it, but I can convert that to Mobi via Calibre.
The only pain is needing to recall which book is in what format, viewed by what program.
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If you ever find one that can replace your PDA and has a larger screen, keep me informed!
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How large a screen would you want?
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Jakie, I did look at that device. But decided against it, first of all, I'm not sure about android at all, but most importantly, it doesn't have any buttons on the casing, at all. I don't like to have to "swipe" the screen to get to a next page, I prefer hardware buttons for that. My current PDA has 3 locations... (left, right and bottom)
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Expect a lot more Android devices to arrive. It's Linux based, and free and open source, so anyone can grab and use it with no license fees or permission required from Google. It's also modular, so device makers can include the parts that support the particular hardware and functions they want to include.
I was wondering back when it was first released when we'd see devices based on it that
weren't smartphones, and now we have them in plenty.
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Dennis